Thank you posting the article. It was an interesting read.
Chris Hedges wrote about the corporatization of universities in his 2009 book "<http://portico.lib.utk.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/basket.do;jsessionid=AB91EB4BEC224C572CE24C83B2EC2F94?fn=create&docs=utk_aleph002098812&remote=false&scopes=&index=1> Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (New York: Nation Books; see chapter three, "The Illusion of Wisdom").
There doesn't appear to be any dramatic and/or new revelations about this phenomenon in the chapter, but Hedges does apply the metaphor of the corporate world in the same terms used in the article, i.e. "spreadsheet," "budget," "customer," quite thoroughly.
Sincerely,
Sheri Edwards
Ph.D. candidate
The University of Tennessee
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Subject: Putting a Price on Professors
Interesting Wall Street Journal article about "a battle in Texas over whether academic value can be measured in dollars and cents."
See: http://bit.ly/9ZWZ8n
Bernie Sloan
